Hi All
I usually don’t make threads and post long essays. But I thought I’d wrap up couple of points and see what is your view on that.
First of all I love Dirty Bomb. Its one of the best, if not the best F2P game I’ve ever played. I am a big fan of Battlefield series and played almost all of them since BF1942. I actually got to know about DB via rivaLxfactor who is one of the popular BF youtubers. Ever since then I play DB like every day. It’s been a year now. And there is the catch, after recent developments and last couple of patches I have lost interest in playing DB. For some reason it feels like there is absolutely no sense of accomplishment anymore. And yes I play for fun of course, but also like the sense of progress which is now gone.
Here are my main observations why:
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New crafting system - I kinda like to grind things and with the new crafting system, I totally lost interest in crafting anything, knowing that the costs of crafting will go down at some point. Perhaps the whole crafting system will be scrapped, who knows. I feel like saving my credits for the upcoming events or just wait for a major update of the crafting system and do it later. Not sure how you guys do this, but I used to save up some credits lets say up to 200k/300k and then enjoy one evening doing stuff, trading up, etc. etc. Simply having fun and poking RNGesus for some good trade ups. I loved the fact that I had to grind through other rarities. Sometimes I kept some of the silver or even gold rarity cards simply because I liked them. This is no longer viable which makes me kind of sad. The prices are beyond ridiculous. Even though SD confirmed that there will be 20 % cost reduction it still feels too much. And majority of the vets have a good stash of various rarities which does not make any sense to reprocess to crafting material with the current price system.
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Ranked, competitive scene - I also have to say I am no longer into pro-gaming thus I am just a casual pub player. I’m sure DB would gain popularity if the competitive scene got more attention and ranked would work as intended. Increasing credit income won’t necessarily attract more players playing ranked. Despite the game is in beta I have a feeling more could be done in order to support competitive scene. Also waiting dozens of minutes to jump in a match is way too much. I’ve played counterstrike since 2002. That game was not even in beta, it was just a half life mod yet it had huge competitive scene. I think it is possible, just different approach needs to be taken. Supporting the community with their own servers would definitely help. Dunno why is it such a big deal here. The whole matchmaking system in ranked is a joke…still…Also something like battle recorder or HLTV if you like would be a nice addition to the competitive scene. I know we have the spectator mode but still. Its got limited slots. I like the DBNation, but it feels like its not as huge as it was before. Many vets stopped playing the game and switched to other games like Overwatch. Yeah dats Capt. obvious there.
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Balance issues - again inb4, the current matchmaker is a joke. Dunno what is the exact algorithm, but hiding levels in lobby does not seem to work. SD could actually reveal what is the formula of the current shuffle before the map loads. There should be more factors included such as XP per min, win/loss, most played mercs, most earned XP in terms of support/combat/objective and dont kill me but maybe even overall K/D. Majority of my games are stomp, no matter what team I am on. Kinda got used to it lol. In my opinion the final shuffle of the players should take when the map loads, seconds before start of the pub match. Not in lobby. Many people still leave before the map loads. Another issue is players leaving throughout the match. There is very few occasions where I see players manually changing teams in order to balance things out. But I guess its just a matter of the community which does not like to do that. I can imagine why. Daily bonuses etc. Pub players are usually going for their daily bonuses and missions … which I quite understand.
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Gun/Merc balance - I like the latest approach that SD took in order to balance stuff in the game. I like the recent burst rifle nerf despite I love using them. I just want that SD won’t make the balance completely flat. That would kill the diversity which we currently have with the selection of weapons. No matter if its a burst, full auto, sub machine or bolt action rifle it should have its advantages and disadvantages. Perhaps few tweaks would help on guns like Dreis or Timik. They seem to be utterly underused and underrated. Some of the pistols also feel crap, like DE for instance. Man its a desert eagle.
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Events - they are fun. Sometimes they feel like endless grind and RNG is skyrocketing but still I kinda like em. I have already spent real cash on this and was quite disappointed with the last Obsidian deal. Until the last moment it was not clear how the obsidian loadout will be selected. Is it going to be a predefined one? or a random roll 1/9? This was not very clear. The only thing we knew was that its going to be the cuplrit merc. Therefore I was paying 11 EUR for a card (not really considering aimee as that is just 50k of credits which are ez to obtain) and I didn’t know what is it going to be. Paying customers should have full disclosure of all details in advance so that they can decide whether to buy or not. I think at this point this was raised and the community manager gave out inaccurate information. Later on apologized. This should not really happen.
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Maps - love the new maps, but hate execution ^^ thus nothing new for me. Love the new map design, the new locations, textures…such a good work, but focus on a wrong game mode. I play DB for objective / SW! That is the core and I am sure majority of you will agree. We need moar. Priority for SD is very clear. Focus on your core game mode. This is what DB is about at the end of the day. Bring more maps into your core game mode. Don’t spend time pimping the existing maps with new textures etc. Do it later. Just like wargaming does with world of tanks. They made all the maps first and now they are slowly redesigning them, pimping their textures and even layout. Prioritize! I figured you are not such a huge team working on DB.
I can’t really think of other points, many of them have been already raised I know. This community, at least on forums is not bad, there are many good posts with great ideas. Implement them, some of them are " just do it " things.
I’m not giving up on DB, but I guess just taking a break and wait what happens. Happy to hear your thoughts comments and criticism^^
